Albanian Football Forum

artan wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 8:30 pm Sometimes I wonder about the agents of these Albanian players. Guys like Kumbulla, Asllani and Broja have awful career choices and yet they never move to a team that will develop them. Someone like Asllani was never ready for Inter after half a year playing for Empoli. Should have stayed another season with Empoli (same with Kumbulla)

ZenMaster wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 9:19 pm Kumbulla accepted bench, it was obvious Smalling, Mancini, Ibanez are ahead of him on Roma hierarchy and he didn't force the move. Asllani is doing exactly same thing, he accepted bench and will start only on cup games or when Inzaghi needs to rest players before important matches.

Dallku wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 10:16 pm

ZenMaster wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 9:19 pm Kumbulla accepted bench, it was obvious Smalling, Mancini, Ibanez are ahead of him on Roma hierarchy and he didn't force the move. Asllani is doing exactly same thing, he accepted bench and will start only on cup games or when Inzaghi needs to rest players before important matches.

Kumbulla was bought for 30 million as a hyped up young player from Verona and Inter and other teams were also competing for him. It was performances that put him behind in the pecking order but he had all the chances in the world to earn a starting spot. Kumbulla always performed badly in the games he needed to be the best like the Bodo Glimt disaster. So it was 100% on him but the chances were there. He just failed and then got injured.

It wouldn't make sense for him to force a move while he was fighting and since they invested so much on him they wanted him to prove himself too.